Thanks for commenting on PA's scenery. I'm kinda partial to it. Only downfall this time of year, the weeds have grown above the hood on the derelicts. Kinda cuts down on your chances of seeing them from the road.

Sweet looking attachment, drive safe and make sure ya got some room for those unexpected deals that crop up when you stop to eat and somebody says "what is that for?" oh really, ya this old boy down the road from me has some of them Bolens out back, PA seems full of em for some reason.
GoodTravels.

These EZ vac systems were used on almost all makes of garden tractors in the 60's and 70's. As far as I know the common bagging systems you see on today's mowers didn't come around until the late 70's/early 80's.These were the best things available at that time, along with the pull behind lawn sweepers. You will not be able to adapt a newer bagging system on these Bolens because the deck and blades were not designed for this.(Not enough air flow/ suction is created to push the grass up a chute)

If you want to collect the clippings I would just get one of those pull behind sweepers.

I have a tow behind AgriFab leaf vacuum that I use on my Ariens, but I have used in the past with my 800. It generates a lot of suction, so I imagine it would work well with any tractor. If you just want to pick up lawn clippings, a sweeper would be fine, but for leaves you can't beat the pull behind units.

These EZ vac systems were used on almost all makes of garden tractors in the 60's and 70's. As far as I know the common bagging systems you see on today's mowers didn't come around until the late 70's/early 80's.These were the best things available at that time, along with the pull behind lawn sweepers. You will not be able to adapt a newer bagging system on these Bolens because the deck and blades were not designed for this.(Not enough air flow/ suction is created to push the grass up a chute)

If you want to collect the clippings I would just get one of those pull behind sweepers.

Well, that sucks that you can't use a "modern bagger" on these old tractors. I was curious about it though. But you're probably dead on and the clippings would just get stuck in the chute trying to push them up into the bag. However, I have seen "baggers" like these on commercial units before:

Could something like this work on my deck since it doesn't have to push thu grass up a chute into the bag? It kind of sticks out a lot beyond the discharge chute, so IDK how that would affect the balance of the deck on the tractor...? Of course none of these seem to be made for Bolens tractors in particular, so no idea how much it would need to be modified to make it fit...

I have a tow behind AgriFab leaf vacuum that I use on my Ariens, but I have used in the past with my 800. It generates a lot of suction, so I imagine it would work well with any tractor. If you just want to pick up lawn clippings, a sweeper would be fine, but for leaves you can't beat the pull behind units.

Yeah, but the biggest issue for me (beyond the extra cost) is that these bagger vacs are so huge and cumbersome to use, let alone transport. I'm looking for something small and compact that would work that I can transport with me to use when I mow other people's lawns to collect the clippings. Yes, I'm too lazy to rake! lol... Plus that would take forever for each lawn...

Does anyone know if they made a Bolens sweeper attachment? I have a line on a Craftsman sweeper that might work out, but would be cool to have an original Bolens one to match the tractor.... Just a thought.

(Oh, and sorry for hi-jacking Old Buzzard's post!! Hope that works out for you and enjoy the drive going to get it! That's half the fun is driving out to pick something up that you bought online, I think at least!)